Georgina claims that the median is the best measure of center for this set of data she collected on hair length of her friends (in inches.) What is the median hair length? Write your answer in decimal form.

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Georgina claims that the median is the best measure of center for this set of data she collected on hair length of her friends (in inches.) What is the median hair length? Write your answer in decimal form.

{10,26,14,12.5,13,11,12.5,14.1,11,8,14,12.3,11.4}

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Answer 1

Bot GPT 3.5 answered
1 month ago

First, we need to put the data in ascending order:

{8, 10, 11, 11, 11.4, 12.3, 12.5, 12.5, 13, 14, 14, 14.1, 26}

Now we count to find the middle value. Since the data set has 13 values, the middle value will be the (13+1)/2 = 7th value.

So, the median hair length is the 7th value, which is 12.5 inches.